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Jerry Bruckheimer’s 2011 THR Facebook takeover — when guest-editing a Facebook page was a thing
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2011 The Hollywood Reporter handed its Facebook fan page over to Jerry Bruckheimer for a day — timed to coincide with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The publication’s first guest editor was the man…
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Terry McGarry dies at 72 — and the long-tenured editor class the LA Times no longer produces
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late April 2011, LA Times reporter Andrew Blankstein tweeted out the news that former Times editor Terry McGarry had died at 72. The paper published its own obit the same day. Then McGarry had spent the bulk of his career…
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Dennis Romero on the 2011 ASNE diversity survey — and what fifteen years of newsroom-diversity tracking shows
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In early April 2011, LA Weekly Informer blogger Dennis Romero — known publicly as The Informer — broke down the American Society of News Editors’ third annual newsroom-diversity survey. The headline finding: minority numbers were plunging for the third year in…
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Steve Lopez vs Alexander Marlow on Hamilton High — a 2011 LAUSD column dispute
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In April 2011 a Big Journalism contributor named Alexander Marlow published a sharp rebuttal of an LA Times column by Steve Lopez that had focused on teacher layoffs at Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, an LAUSD high school with two…
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Ashley Dunn becomes LA Times’ California editor — the appointment that produced the ‘we give ulcers’ memo
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In late March 2011 LA Times editor Russ Stanton named Ashley Dunn the paper’s new California editor, replacing David Lauter — who had moved to become Tribune Company’s Washington bureau chief. Four months later Dunn would be the editor sending the…
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Louis B. Fleming, an original LA Times foreign correspondent, dies at 85
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2011 The Los Angeles Times built its mid-century reputation partly on an ambitious foreign desk. Louis B. Fleming helped build it. Then In March 2011, FishbowlLA marked the death of Louis B. Fleming, one of the Los Angeles Times’ original foreign…
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FishbowlLA’s own editor sits for an Editor & Publisher Q&A
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 the FishbowlLA editor turned the lens around, noting that she herself had been the subject of an Editor & Publisher interview — a small, knowing bit of media-covering-media. Then The post pointed readers to a Q&A by…
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The LA Business Journal does the math on Janice Min’s glossy Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 A year into Janice Min’s reinvention of The Hollywood Reporter as a glossy weekly, the LA Business Journal ran the numbers — and FishbowlLA passed along the ones that mattered. Then The piece was written by Greg Hernandez, a former…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s owner denies a New York Post sale story
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In March 2011 The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company moved to quash a story that one of its backers wanted out — a denial that the following years would complicate. Then A New York Post story by Claire Atkinson reported that,…
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Finke vs THR over a Summit cover — what the 2011 access trade looked like
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In March 2011, Nikki Finke published a Deadline.com item alleging that The Hollywood Reporter had pulled material from an Alex Ben Block business story about Summit Entertainment in exchange for a Jodie Foster interview tied to The Beaver. The accusation was…